Example sentences of "[verb] at [art] [adv] [adj] stage " in BNC.

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1 Either the C scribe or one of his predecessors added to the 1017 entry that the ætheling Eadwig was afterwards killed , and ( perhaps inadvertently ) omitted from it the expulsion of Eadwig king of the ceorls , which appears under 1020 ; the information in 1030 that Olaf " was afterwards holy " ( i.e. regarded as a saint ) must also have been included at a fairly late stage in C 's composition .
2 Piaget attempts to map the increasing capacity for abstraction implied by the symbolic function , showing that in this development , language , which depends on an entirely conventional relationship between sign and signified , is bound to come at a relatively late stage .
3 The court also has power to order transfer of its own motion and the question should be considered at a very early stage in the proceedings .
4 The answers received will be analysed in tabular form for statistical presentation and so categories of response must be considered at a relatively early stage .
5 This should be done at a fairly early stage . ’
6 Evidence will now have to be prepared at a much earlier stage .
7 These preliminary contacts are made at a very early stage in development when the embryo is very small and the pioneer cells need only extend their exploratory axons over a short distance in order to contact the target .
8 Furthermore , children may be born with , or acquire at a relatively early stage , processing biases which will constrain the forms of adult input to which they will be most sensitive .
9 Experimentation with heroin for interviewees in the hidden sector , then , began at a much earlier stage , after an average of six months of recreational drug use instead of 17 months .
10 This divergence began to emerge at a very early stage .
11 When they have arrived at the fully mobile stage of their development , but have not yet ventured off on their own , they may accompany their mother on short trips away from the ‘ nest , .
12 Similarly , inadequate information about the siting of the jetty at Rothera meant that it had to be redesigned and repositioned at a relatively late stage , at an additional cost of £2 million .
13 Not only are guillotine motions being introduced with phenomenal frequency ; they are being introduced at a very early stage .
14 In relation to fire in ‘ high-bay ’ warehouses it is important that the local fire officer , the Local Authority and the Company 's Insurers , together with the Architect are involved at a very early stage in the planning of the system .
15 In every case that I have examined , the police were involved at a very early stage , before any serious attempt had been made either to assess the reliability of the allegation or to give the accused teacher a chance of refuting it .
16 We speculate that individuals in category C have the same genotypic characteristics as those in categories A and B but are identified at a slightly later stage in disease progression .
17 can not have four week deferred period So what we 're saying is the risk there is too high , and there 's obviously a greater chance they 'll be claiming at a very early stage Okay , so the client has the choice , say , apart from the group fours , they could be four thirty and twenty-six and fifty-two , but again dove-tailing into what they 've already got .
18 The decision as to when to instruct an Expert will , therefore , require to be taken at a much earlier stage than is usual .
19 Sustained flight could then arise at a still later stage through the evolution of a basal articulation and the development of flapping movements using tergocoxal muscles that were concerned primitively with leg movements ( Tiegs , 1955 ) .
20 Yet an evaluation seems so often to be understood more as a sort of independent commission of enquiry undertaken at a fairly late stage in the life of a programme or project by ‘ experts ’ from outside whose findings may or may not be in straightforward language .
21 They should also indicate potential problems , which , if rectified at a sufficiently early stage , will avoid the need for unnecessary expenditure of time and money in seeking to correct the position .
22 It is clear that the therapist should have endeavoured at a much earlier stage to involve the parents in treatment , preferably by means of conjoint sessions with Pamela and her parents together .
23 Although the South Downs were cleared at a very early stage in man 's history in Britain , the clearing of the Wealden forest was delayed until the medieval period , the height of the clearance being in the 13th and 14th centuries , although parts may have been cleared as early as the ninth century .
24 As the formation of these smaller fullerenes seems to require extensive annealing of more disorganized clusters , they may form at a relatively late stage of clustering .
25 In fact , it is clear that the main characteristics of national industrial relations , their dominant and distinctive features , seem to be established at a fairly early stage in the industrial development of a country .
26 Contemporary bargaining structures are to some degree a reflection of bargaining patterns established at a fairly early stage of industrial development .
27 If such subliminal presentations can be shown to influence processing of subsequent information in anxious subjects , it would strongly support the suggestion that anxiety-related biases occur at a very early stage of information processing .
28 For example , it is related to parental love in that children learn at a very early stage that behaving well or being ‘ OK ’ means they get more affection ; being ‘ not OK ’ leads to a withdrawal of affection .
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